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Description

The concepts of reconciliation and transitional justice are inextricably linked in a new body of normative meta-theory underpinned by claims related to their effects in managing the transformation of deeply divided societies to a more stable and more democratic basis. This edited volume is dedicated to a critical re-examination of the key premises on which the debates in this field pivot. The contributions problematise core concepts, such as victimhood, accountability, justice and reconciliation itself; and provide a comparative perspective on the ethnic, ideological, racial and structural divisions to understand their rootedness in local contexts and to evaluate how they shape and constrain moving beyond conflict. With its systematic empirical analysis of a geographic and historic range of conflicts involving ethnic and racial groups, the volume furthers our grasp of contradictions often involved in transitional justice scholarship and practice and how they may undermine the very goals of peace, stability and reconciliation that they seek to promote.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rethinking reconciliation and transitional justice after conflict James Hughes and Denisa Kostovicova

1. Agency versus structure in reconciliation James Hughes

2. Decolonization as reconciliation: rethinking the national conflict paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Nadim N. Rouhana

3. Transitional justice and political order in Rwanda Cyanne E. Loyle

4. Norm contestation and reconciliation: evidence from a regional transitional justice process in the Balkans Denisa Kostovicova and Aude Bicquelet

7. Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration Desmond S. King and Jennifer M. Page

8. Race, reconciliation, and justice in Australia: from denial to acknowledgment Mark McMillan and Sophie Rigney

About the Editors

James Hughes is a Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics & Political Science, UK.

Denisa Kostovicova is an Associate Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her research interests include transitional justice and post-conflict reconstruction. She is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (2005).

About the Series

Race, ethnicity and nationalism are at the heart of many of the major social and political issues in the present global environment. New antagonisms have emerged which require a rethinking of traditional theoretical and empirical perspectives. The books in this series arebased on special issues of Ethnic and Racial Studies, the leading journal for the analysis of these issues throughout the world. Expert authors and editors present interdisciplinary research and theoretical analysis, drawing on sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, economics, geography, international relations, history, social psychology and cultural studies.